PHA Proof of Concept Award winners

This grant’s target audience is investigators who are interested in early-stage pulmonary hypertension research.

This program supports new research projects that are in the early exploratory and developmental stages and have the potential to lead to advances in the scientific understanding of PH. Proposed projects result in preliminary data that will enable the investigator to apply for support for a larger, hypotheses-driven research project.

As of 2014, PHA has supported 13 researchers through this partnership and we hope to continue to further our understanding of PH by continuing to support such novel efforts in the field.

2015

Ke Yuan, PhD

"The role of lung pericytes as a source of occluding pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells in PAH"December 1, 2015- November 30, 2016Instructor, Pulmonary Critical Care MedicineStanford UniversityLearn More

Guofei Zhou, PhD

“AMPK and Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension”December 1, 2012 – November 30, 2013University of Illinois College of Medicine, ChicagoLearn More

2011

Mary Beth Brown, PhD, PT, ATC

“Clinical Investigation of a Daily Walking Program plus L-Arginine Supplementation for the Treatment of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension”October 1, 2011 – September 30, 2012Indiana University, IndianapolisLearn More

Ferhaan Ahmad, MD, PhD

“Applying Genomics as a Springboard to Novel Mechanisms of Pulmonary Hypertension”October 1, 2011 – September 30, 2012University of Pittsburgh, PittsburghLearn More

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